The Sports Trader

Thursday 25th October 2007

The Sports Trader had a good day with 11 UK horse races, 1 football match and 1 snooker match.

My day started off the same as yesterday with a losing trade. This was in the 14:30 at Brighton where I had laid Maxwil for £97 @ 1.57 to cost me £55. My next 3 trades all resulted in small profits.

In the 15:35 at Brighton I had my only other losing trade of the day when I laid Transcend for £75 @ 4.20 to cost me £184. I followed this with a small profitable trade.

Things got a whole lot better in the 15:55 at Ludlow where I had laid Sayago for £500 @ 2.00 before backing back £200 @ 3.25 and £40 @ 3.30. Later I partially greened up with a back for £30 @ 3.25. This left me with a profit of £231. My next 4 trades all resulted in small profits.

My race trading had finished with a profit of £17.

Later I traded the Tottenham v Getafe football match. I had several trades on the under 2.5 goals market which had got me into a position of a potential profit of £70 on the unders and £14 profit on the overs when the third goal was scored. I also backed the Getafe for the match result in the final few minutes for £400 @ 1.10 to result in a profit of £40. In the final 10 minutes I backed the under 3.5 goals for £80 @ 1.43 which I laid off soon after @ 1.28 to give me another £12 profit.

After the football I watched the Steve Davis V Stephen Hendry snooker match. I backed Hendry for £221 @ 1.60 and laid this off @ 1.21 to give me a profit of £85.

My day had finished with a profit of £173.

I have recently become aware of the RonBot Radio on the ManOfMystery blog. I have listened into the show a few times and find it very entertaining.  I will be talking with the site owner, John Preddy,  live on his radio show tomorrow at around 12:45 and will be talking about the way I trade and why I use Betdaq so if you have the time please drop by and listen in. If you have any questions for me just drop an email to John on his site.

Wednesday 24th October 2007

The Sports Trader had a day to forget after producing a loss after 15 consecutive winning days. I traded on 10 UK horse races and 1 football match.

My day got off to the bad start in the 13:40 at Lingfield as I had laid Malibu Girl for £28 @ 9.00 after making a very poor start to the race and left outpaced and in the rear of the field. She started to make headway with 2 furlongs to go but I still didn't see the need to trade out of my position. Finally she ran on well in the final furlong to win by nearly two lengths and to cost me £224. I followed this up with a small but profitable trade.

In the 15:00 at Bath I laid Dunn'o for £34 @ 6.00 to result in a profit of £34. I followed this with 4 more small winning trades.

My second and final losing trade came in the 18:20 at Kempton where I laid Blue Zenith for £83 @ 3.00. Again I called this wrong and it ended up costing me £167.

In the 19:50, also at Kempton, I laid Musical Script for £50 @ 2.90 to result in a £50 profit.

The last race trade of my day was in the 20:50 at Kempton where I backed Garafena for £24 @ 2.08 to result in a profit of £26.

My race trading had resulted in a loss of £267.

In the evening I traded on the Besiktas v Liverpool Champions League football match. I had started by backing the under 2.5 goals market for  £50 @ 2.35, with one goal already scored. I laid this off @ 2.22. Later I backed the unders again for £748 @ 1.69 and laid off £56 @ 1.67 and £500 @ 1.57. I laid the rest of my liability @ 1.60 and this left me with a potential profit of £85 on the unders. I then partially greened up with a lay of £25 @ 1.44. With a couple more goals being scored I finished the game with a profit of £25. In the final minutes of the game I backed Besiktas to win for £175 @ 1.06 and a further £64 @ 1.05 to give me a profit of £14.

My day had finished with a disappointing loss of £229.

Tuesday 23rd October 2007

The Sports Trader had an unproductive day after trading on 12 horse races and 1 football match.

My day started with a small but profitable trade. Then I had the first of 3 losing trades in the 14:20 at Lingfield. I had backed Foreland Sands for £40 @ 2.50 when well clear of the field and coming round the final bend. He kept in front well into the final furlong but was eventually caught approaching the finishing line to cost me £40. I followed this with another small winning trade.

My best result of the day came next in the 15:10 at Exeter where I laid Thunder Child for £35 @ 30.00 and a further £13 @ 40.00 to result in a profit of £48. My next 3 race trades all resulted in small profits.

In the 16:05 at Fairyhouse I laid Stunt Man for £25 @ 10.00 before backing back £4 @ 12.00 to result in a profit of £21.

My second loss came in the 16:40 at Exeter where I backed Storm Applause for £140 @ 2.90 before laying off @ 2.65. Next I backed again for £100 @ 2.75 and began laying off but only managed to lay off £43, so I ended the race with a loss of £57. My next trade resulted in a small profit.

My final loss of the day came in the 17:05 at Fairyhouse where I laid Keelaghan for £25 @ 1.90 to lose me £22. I finished my race trading with a small profitable trade.

My race trading had resulted in a loss of £17.

I had decided to watch the Rangers v Barcelona football match in the evening. I had a few small trades on the under 2.5 goals market which resulted in a profit of £23.

My day had therefore ended with a small profit of just £6.

Monday 22nd October 2007

A good start to the week for the Sports Trader with 10 horse races and 1 football match traded and just 1 losing trade.

I started my day with 2 small but profitable trades. Just to refresh peoples memory I call any trade resulting in a profit or loss of £10 or less as a small trade. My next trade was the best of the day and came in the 15:50 at Plumpton where I laid Ballyhoo for £209 @ 2.00 before backing back £54 @ 5.00 and £40 @ 6.00. Later I laid a further £31 @ 5.00 to result in a profit of £146. I followed this with 2 more small winning trades.

In the 15:30 at Wolverhampton I laid Cap St.Jean for £66 @ 3.50 before backing back £22 @ 4.20 and £19 @ 6.07 to result in a profit of £25.

The only losing trade of my day came next in the 15:40 at Pontefract where I had laid Siberian Tiger for £31 @ 2.00 to lose £31. My next 2 trades both resulted in small profits.

My last race trade of the day was in the 17:20 at Plumpton where I backed Ocean du Moulin for £519 @ 1.05 when well clear in the final furlong to result in a profit of £26.

My race trading had resulted in a profit of £182.

In the evening I decided to trade the Newcastle v Spurs football match. I thought the odds on offer for under 2.5 goals were very generous so I backed the unders for £100 @ 2.22 before kick off and then for a further £38 @ 2.09 just after the kick off. I started laying off about 6 minutes into the game with lays at 1.98 for £38, 1.88 for £25, 1.82 for £25, 1.76 for £25 and finally 1.58 for £25. I was now in a position of no liability on the overs but a potential profit of £50 on the unders. I then put a lay up at 1.35 for £37 which would have given me an all green of £37, but alas a goal was scored before my trade was matched on the Daq. I decided to wait for the price to drop to see if I could trade out with a reasonable profit but the goals kept coming so I ended the match with no profit or loss from this trade. I did however back the correct score of 3 -1 for £98 @ 1.91 in the 80th minute which I laid off 1 minute later @ 1.76. Later I backed the same correct score for £18 @ 1.61 and laid this off @ 1.50 before a final back @ 1.40 for £28  which was laid off @ 1.20 to leave me with a profit of £22.

My day had finished with a profit of £204.

Sunday 21st October 2007

Welcome back from the Sports Trader to all readers. The past few weeks have been a little difficult to say the least and because of these problems I have been unable to post my daily account of trading. I can not go into too much detail about my problems but I feel I should let you know some of what has been going on.

It is now just over a year since my wife left me and our three children to fend for ourselves. We have got on surprisingly well although I have had to develop my culinary skills some what. My days are necessarily quite a strict regime to enable me to get the children up at around 7:00 then fed washed and dressed and ready for school and play school. The twins are only at play school from
9:15 to 11:45 so by the time I have got back home and done a few jobs it is time to pick them up again. My Au-pair starts at 2:00 so from then on I can concentrate on my trading. I start to prepare the evening meal at 5:00 so I have to stop trading from then until I have got the children in bed @ 7:00 for the twins and 8:00 for Zoe. I would then normally recommence trading in the evening. At weekends my wife is suppose to take the children which gives me time to concentrate on full trading days.

Well I think my wife has had the children just 1 whole weekend in the last 6 which plays havoc with my routine and also means that I can not get a much needed lye in bed at the weekends. But worse than this during the first week of October I was happily trading away on the Thursday night Premier League snooker tournament when I started to feel unwell. It started as a touch of indigestion, then I felt my heart racing and I could not stop shaking. Soon after I had serious pains in my chest and all down my left arm.  I suspected the worst and gave my son Oliver a call to see if he could come round to look after the children whilst I went to see a Doctor. Oliver arrived and I had spoken to the NHS 24 service. I was told that I could not drive so they would send someone to check me out. Soon after an ambulance turned up, much to my embarrassment. They checked me over and I had very high blood pressure along with other classic symptoms of a heart attack. I was taken to hospital and had all the tests but thankfully my heart was ok. I still do not know what was wrong. I spent a day in hospital and then went back the following day for more tests. It is likely that I had some sort of stress disorder but my heart is as fit as possible.

A few days after getting home I then had some sort of viral infection which again made me miss trading, as many of you will know, if you are not 100% fit it is a waste of time trying to trade as your concentration levels are just not good enough. This infection lasted 7 days but I am now back fighting fit and on a mission to stay healthy and continue to make this Sports Trading pay.

Thanks for all the emails and comments that I have received over the past few weeks, it is always so pleasant to hear from fellow traders. I do realise that a blog should be updated regularly and I must admit it had crossed my mind to stop this blog completely as it is quite time consuming but for now I do intend to keep going.

Week Ending 7th October 2007 - Unsurprisingly this turned out to be a losing week. My activity was much reduced due to the problems detailed earlier and I made a big mistake on the Saturday which cost me £1733, although later that night I made £1413 on the Sri Lanka v England 3rd ODI. My week finished with a loss of £348.

Week Ending 14th October 2007 - This was another shortened week due to my illness but I did manage to turn in a profit of £766 after trading on 60 events with just 3 losing trades.

Week Ending 21st October 2007 - This was half term week for the children and we decided to have a couple of day trips as life has not been much fun for them over the past few weeks. So after yet another short week I managed to finish up with a profit of £889.

I have been trading a lot more conservatively over the past couple of weeks but still showing reasonable results, so I will continue this way for a while and see how things work out. 

Sunday 30th September 2007

Following on from my last post this will be a summary of the last weeks trading.  I hope to get back to daily updates after this.

Monday 24th Sept. - A great start to this week after trading on 8 horse races, 1 cricket match and 1 football match with just 1 losing trade. My best trade for a while came in the 16:10 at Hamilton where I backed Elopement for £593 @ 5.10 before laying off £600 @ 3.25 which left me with a profit of £1080 on the race. My day finished with a profit of £1178.

Tuesday 25th Sept. - A good performance with 5 horse races and 2 football matches traded and with no losing trades which left me with a profit of £208 for the day.

Wednesday 26th Sept. - Not the best of days after trading on 12 horse races but I did have 3 losing races and this left me with a profit of £25 for the day.

Thursday 27th Sept. - A lot better day today with 10 horse races, 1 snooker match and 1 football match traded and with no losing trades and a profit on the day of £260.

Friday 28th Sept. - This was a poor day of trading. I traded on 12 horse races and 1 rugby match but had 3 losing trades and finished the day with a loss of £198.

Saturday 29th Sept. - Another difficult day after trading on 17 horse races and 1 rugby match I finished with a loss of £7.

Sunday 30th Sept. - This was looking to be another losing day but I managed to turn it around with a good trade on the South Africa v America rugby match. I had traded on 8 horse races earlier and finished the day with a profit of £89.

The result for the week has been good which is surprising as I have had a very busy and difficult time, but I am pleased with the £1556 profit.

Yet another month has gone by in a flash, it has been a good one for me on the trading front and has produced a profit of £5803.  

Sunday 23rd September 2007

In an attempt to get my blog back on track I will just give a summary of my main trades since the last update.

Friday 21st Sept. - A decent solid day of trading where I traded on 5 horse races, 1 football match and 1 Rugby match with no losing trades and a profit of £159.

Saturday 22nd Sept. - A busy day but not a great result after trading on 8 horse races,  1 cricket match and 3 football matches with just one losing trade which resulted in a profit of the day of £66.

Sunday 23rd Sept. -  Another busy day and a slightly better result after trading on 17 horse races and 2 football matches with just 1 loss which resulted in a profit of £90 for the day.

This has been a very busy week both trading and personally. I ended the week with a profit of £1184.

Thursday 20th September 2007

It was a quiet day for the Sports Trader with only 5 horse races traded but with no losses.

I started with the 14:20 at Ayr where I laid Hamish McGonagall for £31 @ 8.00 to start the day with a £31 profit.

In the 14:25 at Listowel I laid Houmairi for £3 @ 4.20 and a further £23 @ 8.10 to result in a profit of £26. I followed this with 2 small but profitable trades.

The final trade of my day came in the 21:20 at Wolverhampton where I backed Kansas Gold for £7 @ 5.10 to return a profit of £29.

My day had finished with a profit of £92.

Wednesday 19th September 2007

A much better day for the sports Trader today after trading on 8 horse races and 1 football match.

My day started with the 14:00 at Beverley where I back Prigsnov Dancer for £233 @ 1.30 to result in a profit of £70.

In the 14:05 at Listowel I backed Westlake for £5 @ 1.80 and then £476 @ 1.40 to return a profit of £195.

Next was the 14:35 at Beverley where I backed Eastern Romance for £41 @ 1.50 to produce a £20 profit. I followed this with a small losing trade.

The best result of my day came next, in the 16:30 at Yarmouth, where I backed Samira Gold for £217 @ 1.97 to result in a profit of £210. I followed this with a small profitable trade.

In the 17:20 at Listowel I backed Pom Flyer for £40 @ 2.09 to give me a loss of £40. The last race trade of my day resulted in a small profit.

My race trading had resulted in a profit of £453 for the day.

In the evening I watched the Rangers v Stuttgart football match and within seconds of the final whistle I backed the correct score of 2 - 1 for £171 @ 1.03 to produce a profit of £5.

My day had finished with a profit of £458.

Tuesday 18th September 2007

It was not a good day for the Sports Trader today after making my first  wrong move in a Twenty20 match. I traded on 4 horse races 2 cricket matches and 1 football match.

My day started with the Twenty20 cricket match between England and New Zealand and I made a real blunder by backing England for £800 @ 1.38 just  at the wrong time as with the next ball the price went against me after a wicket was taken and I was left with few options to trade out. I could have got out about 15 minutes later with just a small loss but decided England would come through, however they didn't so I made a loss of £770 on the match.

My horse race trading got under way at 14:25 with a small loss followed by a small profit. Then came the best trade of my day in the 15:30 at Thirsk as I laid Generous Jim for £629 @ 3.00 to result in a profit of £629.

The last race trade of my day came in the 16:55 at Listowel where I laid Head Waiter for £82 @ 9.50 before backing back £14 @ 12.00 to produce a profit of £68.

My race trading had returned a profit of £696.

In the evening I traded on the Shakhtar Donetsk v Celtic football match. By the time I had got settled down to this match it was already 2 - 0 with only 10 minutes played. I decided to have a back of the under 2.50 goals for £71 @ 7.70. I then gradually laid off in £10 lots @ 6.56, 6.00, 5.17, 4.85, 4.33, 3.94 and 3.70 which left me with no liability and then slowly greened up to leave a profit of £82 no matter the result.

My day, which had looked very bad early on, finished with a loss of £52.